ONE: While CNN celebrates opulent, colourful and wealthy weddings in Lagos State, over in Kano State, a hundred couples were married in local government sponsored mass ceremony aimed at targeted at dealing with a variety of identified social problems. The aim of this initiative is to tackled the high divorce rates in Kano State, provide a stable home for divorced [...]

ONE: A radio station proclaiming itself to be representing the interests of the Republic of Biafra has started airing broadcasts. Radio Biafra first hit airwaves in the course of the Nigerian civil war. The re-emergence of Radio Biafra has been met with shock, excitement and curiosity. I am personally curious about this station that broadcasts from London and is slated [...]

ONE: Last week Ahmad Salkida, a reporter who works with several newspapers in Maiduguri, wrote an expose on his personal experience reporting Boko Haram’s terrorists activities aided by the help of his network of sources within the group. A few days following Salkida’s report, Boko Haram attacked several media houses include, Premium Times newspaper and ThisDay newspaper offices in Abuja [...]

ONE: James Ibori, former governor of Delta State has been convicted by the Southwark Crown Court in the UK on corruption charges. Ibori has been jailed for 13 years for fraud totalling nearly £50 million. He admitted to conspiracy to defraud and money laundering and to fraud in excess of £50 million. Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated [...]

ONE: More analysis on Boko Haram that examines foreign influences on the group and the “Balkanisation” of Nigeria and the wider Sahel region. TWO: The Police Command in Borno state paid N500,000 to a man who had provided them with information that led to the thwarting of a plan to murder a clergyman in the state. The man’s name was [...]

ONE: As Boko Haram’s rampage continues more and more analytical essays devoted to examining the group and it’s impact on Nigerian society are popping up. This most recent one claims that Boko Haram is run by a council of 10 men and has been spilt into two main cells. One cell is more “traditional” lead by a Abubakar Shekau and [...]

ONE: President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to use the experience of the Asian Tigers (i.e Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) to help Nigeria transform into a major economy by 2020. He expressed his admiration towards the success of the Asian Tigers at the Nigeria-Korean Investment Forum on Infrastructure and Energy Development in Seoul last week, co-hosted by the [...]

ONE: Lagos and Ibadan have been listed among 10 leading African cities to watch for investment inflow in a report containing research carried out by Frontier Strategy Group, an international research firm. Lagos was listed among the five top urban markets across Africa alongside Johannesburg, Accra, Luanda and Nairobi, dubbed “The Big Five Cities”. While Ibadan was part of the [...]

ONE: Last week, the British government made attempts to justify the botched attempt at rescuing a British and an Italian that were kept in Nigeria as hostages. While Philip Hammond told the members of parliament that the rescue effort was the “best chance” for the hostages as the kidnappers may have figured out that authorities knew their locations, it was [...]

  ONE:  On March 3, Arik Air began reinstating flights between Lagos and Johannesburg after earlier suspending flights between the two cities due to a dispute with South African health authorities over yellow fever vaccination cards presented at OR Tambo International Airport. This dispute resulted in a number of passengers being deported and led to a meeting between the Nigerian [...]